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...Capone syndicate. Headquarters: Chicago. Command and staff: the heirs of Al Capone-vulture-eyed Tony Accardo; dapper Charles Fischetti, Al Capone's cousin; Jake ("Greasy Thumb") Guzik. The Capone Syndicate's specialty: bookmaking. with a secondary interest in policy wheels...
...Seventh Veil," Ann Todd portrays a concert pianist who, after a long period of intense training by her cousin-guardian Nicholas (James Mason), succumbs to a neurotic illness. Miss Todd manages to put across many different ages, moods, and attitudes smoothly; she can shift from the coquettish to the depressed with no difficulty, and uses both facial and bodily movement to advantage. Mason is as gutturally crisp as ever, and avoids over-suppressing his emotions, which is a common fault in such cynical roles...
...major writers; the Nobel Prize in 1947 made it official. He was "compelled," he said, to write about his own inner conflicts, "which otherwise would have fought constantly with each other": his Puritan boyhood v. the hedonism he discovered in North Africa; his homosexuality v. his love for his cousin and wife, Emmanuèle; his emancipation from convention v. his search for a personal substitute; his artist's ego v. his social conscience. The conflicts showed in both his literary style and his personal appearance (he kept a Bible in the flowing cape he once affected...
...court in Loerrach, Germany slapped a $140,610 fine on Prince Hans von Liechtenstein, 40, cousin of little Liechtenstein's sovereign, Prince Francis Joseph II, for evading customs. The prince's defense: the luggage he carried belonged to a friend; how was he to know it contained 13,270 Swiss watches...
...First cousin of the late historian James Truslow Adams...